Site Record

The airfield for 13 Light Anti-Aircraft School was a grass airstrip to the east of the A487.

Event and Historical Information:
The complex of temporary buildings centred on the farmland surrounding Cilfforch farmhouse was established in 1942. The farmhouse acted as the Commanding Officer's Headquarters. The facilities included accommodation, school rooms, abulution blocks and stores, with access roads to the circular concrete gun emplacments at the cliff edge, The targets for the school were drogues and flags towed by aircraft supplied from Aberporth - 1607, 1608 and 1609 Flights of 1 Anti-Aircraft Cooperation Unit (AACU). The grass airstrip was used for liaison flights and also possibly for dropping targets onto after firing had ceased - to check accuracy. The range allocated to the school extended far out to sea and was named Army Range 227. The camp appears to have been used by the RAF, Army, Royal Marines and, from late 1942, by US Army units.

Sources include:
Jones, I, 2007, Airfields and Landing Grounds of Wales: West, pg184-5

RCAHMW, November 2011.